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| Marty Wyngaarden KraussSummaryAffiliation: Brandeis University Country: USA Publications
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Access to specialty medical care for children with mental retardation, autism, and other special health care needsMarty Wyngaarden Krauss
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, MS 035, Brandeis University, PO Box 549110, Waltham, MA 02454 9110, USA
Ment Retard 41:329-39. 2003..Primary Medicaid coverage and public secondary health coverage were associated with fewer access problems. Implications for health services for children with special health care needs are discussed...
Adults with autism living at home or in non-family settings: positive and negative aspects of residential statusM W Krauss
Heller School for Social Policy and Management, MS 035, PO Box 5491100, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
J Intellect Disabil Res 49:111-24. 2005..out-of-family living. In the present study, maternal assessments of residential status, involvement with adult children living in a non-family setting, and the impacts on mothers of their residential arrangements were examined...
Lessons from the field: participatory action research in a family research projectDorothy Robison
Heller School, Brandeis University, PO Box 9110, Waltham, MA 02254-9110, USA
Ment Retard 41:460-4. 2003
Cultural context of caregiving: differences in depression between Puerto Rican and non-Latina White mothers of adults with mental retardationSandra Magaña
School of Social Work and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1500 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705 2280, USA
Ment Retard 42:1-11. 2004..In addition, Puerto Rican mothers were in poorer physical health, which further accounted for differences in depression between the two groups...
Behavior problems in adults with mental retardation and maternal well-being: examination of the direction of effectsGael I Orsmond
Boston University, Boston, MA 02215l, USA
Am J Ment Retard 108:257-71. 2003..Initial levels and changes over time in behavior problems predicted changes in maternal well-being, and initial levels and changes over time in maternal well-being predicted changes in behavior problems in the son or daughter...
Peer relationships and social and recreational activities among adolescents and adults with autismGael I Orsmond
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 34:245-56. 2004....
Comparison groups in autism family research: Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and schizophreniaMarsha Mailick Seltzer
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 34:41-8. 2004..We discuss both matching and statistical control procedures and point to next steps in this line of comparative autism family research...
Psychological well-being and coping in mothers of youths with autism, Down syndrome, or fragile X syndromeLeonard Abbeduto
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, 53705, USA
Am J Ment Retard 109:237-54. 2004..The most consistent predictor of maternal outcomes was the adolescent or young adult's behavioral symptoms...
The effect of quality of the relationship between mothers and adult children with schizophrenia, autism, or down syndrome on maternal well-being: the mediating role of optimismJan Steven Greenberg
Waisman Center and School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 74:14-25. 2004..The findings highlight the importance of dispositional optimism, a psychological resource that has been virtually ignored in studies of family caregivers of adults with disabilities...
The symptoms of autism spectrum disorders in adolescence and adulthoodMarsha Mailick Seltzer
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705 2280, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 33:565-81. 2003..Findings were interpreted in the context of life course development, reformulations of diagnostic criteria, and changing service contexts for individuals with autism spectrum disorders...
Mother-child relationship quality among adolescents and adults with autismGael I Orsmond
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
Am J Ment Retard 111:121-37. 2006....
